3.7cm PaK 35/36 destroyed house diorama (Tamiya 1/35 scale model)

[Music] hello guys today i'm going to be building this classic tamiya pack 35 kit and a small diorama to go with it this kit is originally from 1974 and you can see in the box out here the classic tamiya kits the um six pounder the flak 88 and the ses jeep in that kind of classic to me a style it's a pretty small and simple kit with four figures and it offers you the ability to either have the gun wheeled or attached to the back of a half track inside the box there are only two sprues one for the weapon itself and one for the crew the instructions are typical to mirror instructions very clear and in this case there is short as well it has colour names rather than colour codes which is quite common for the older kits and of course photos of the completed models which is another characteristic of older kits there's not much to say about the construction itself being such a simple kit it goes together nice and easy as you would expect but there is quite a bit of cleanup required on things like the barrel here and there are injector pin marks on the inside of the shield some of these get covered up by later parts [Music] so the pack 36 was the main anti-tank gun of the german army at the start of world war ii and in fact it was even used before then in the spanish civil war however even by the battle of france in 1940 it was unable to defeat the better armored british tanks which are coming into service such as the matilda ii and during the invasion of the soviet union the new russian t-34s and kv-1s were basically immune to this weapon however despite this and despite production being stopped in 1942 the gun was still used up to the end of the war there was also some improvement in the ammunition in terms of shaped charges and tamiya's kit includes one of these so you can model a late war situation the figures in this kit are quite typical of older tamiya figures in that they are a little bit sort of chunky a little bit fat almost a bit over scale and they have quite large quite prominent seam marks in them as well but if you clean them up they still look pretty decent the painting of the pack 36 was limited to some xf63 german grey and then quite a thick wash of some brown oil paint thinned with odourless thinners for the diorama i wanted to build a damaged house with the pack 35 firing from within so i chose this small wooden base and sketched out where a couple of walls would go and after trying a couple of configurations i decided to go with this setup here with the pack 36 firing here right to left in this case and this wall on the left hand side being an internal wall so the gun is varying from within the house and through the house as well i cut the xps foam which is about 10 mil thick into the rough shape of a damaged wall and i had lots of bricks left over both from a pack that i bought and from some that i molded myself and i wanted to use these as rubble so i needed to make sure that when i carved the bricks into the xps foam i kept them the same size to make the initial cuts i used a sharp knife but then i widened them with the end of a cocktail stick [Music] i only did the brick pattern on the very edge of the wall because my intention was to cover the rest of the wall with plaster for the exterior wall i did a similar thing with larger stones i realized later on that i made a mistake here that this was too consistent and the sizes were too even and it doesn't look like a stone wall it looks much more like a modern breeze block wall if i were to do this again i would definitely make these stones much more irregular in terms of shape and size to give some texture to the external wall i rolled up a piece of aluminium foil and rolled it over the surface of the foam [Music] to simulate plaster on the inside of the walls i used some modelling paste spread as thinly as i could get it and once it was dry i sanded that down to make it even thinner i used the same modeling paste to stick the walls to the base and then i put even more modelling paste on the ground into which i could stick the first part of the floor to once all that was dry i decided to use my favorite ak dry ground texture paste for the road outside before i put the floorboards in place i painted all of the underflower area and i used some cheap black acrylic paint to do that and i just slapped it on none of this will be seen but if it was left white it probably would stand out and then some more wooden sticks were cut to length and super glued into place to form flower boards [Music] i deliberately put these down in a rough pattern in some areas to simulate damage [Music] and this is how the pack will fit into the final diorama [Music] the next step was to give everything a good coat of tamiya primer and then a coat of black and then i gave the flower bars a few light coats of different color browns we've got some flat earth in there we've got some wooden deck tan in there we've got some buff in there and a little bit of red brown in there as well very light coats just trying to break up the uniformity of the floorboards and you can also see i gave the interior wall a coat of green then it was time to hand paint the bricks this initial colour was ak primer red i covered all of the bricks but i deliberately left the black showing through in some areas and then i picked out individual bricks in slightly different red orange brown colours [Music] i was definitely struggling with the exterior wall at this point and my attempt at stone colors doesn't look very stone-like at all i toned this down later on some of those yellows in particular are a little bit too bright i also manufactured a little wooden broken staircase and use one of the mini art chest of drawers from a furniture pack [Music] and there were several configurations i could go for here of the stairs and the drawers in the end i decided on this one i then needed to add some piles of rubble to the inside of the house to do this i used some sculptor mould this would form the bases of the rubble and then i would add bricks and other debris into it while it was still wet would it have been better to put a sculpter mould on before i did more of the painting maybe but i also think that would have disadvantages as well [Music] i've pushed bricks into the sculptor mould and i also made sure that sometimes i stuck individual bricks together to make chunks of brickwork because obviously bricks don't fall off buildings one by one [Music] and you can see here i've used quite a few of my plaster bricks the advantage of those plaster bricks is that you can break them and damage the edges much more easily than the pre-made bricks [Music] you can also see that i've sprinkled some of the plaster dust from damaging those bricks into the sculpture mold to give it a little bit of a finer texture the next job was to give colour to the rubble i used some thinned acrylic paints to do this and i took advantage of the fact that the sculpted mold and the plaster are quite absorbent so black was the base color i gave to make sure that there was just nothing showing through of the underlying red or the insulin plaster and then i used some more heavily thin paints i used a couple of grays applying these like a thick wash really and then just like i did for the wall itself i picked out individual bricks in reds browns and oranges [Music] the next step was to add some streaking patterns to the walls and i did that using tamiya's black panel liner putting a few drops on the wall and then using a brush slightly dampened in enamel thinners to drag those points down the wall [Music] um [Music] for the darker green wall i covered it in slightly thinned ak streaking grime and once that had dried for a while i removed it with some tissue slightly dampened with an ammo thinner because of the absorbent nature of the plaster it does really filter the colours quite a lot but i still think it gives the effect i was after at this stage i still wasn't really happy with the rubble piles they didn't really have enough texture on them so i took some plaster leftovers which i had from a while ago i tried to break them up a little bit more to make them smaller and i added them in a container with some thinned enamel paints again some red and brown brick style colors the reason i took this approach is because these particles are way too small to paint by hand once they're on the diorama so it's better to pour the paint into them and let them absorb it and once they've been left on some foil to dry they gave me some nice dust that i could use i added some water down pva to the diorama and then sprinkled the dust on top and i feel like this bridges the gap in size between the bricks which i had previously and the very fine pigment which i would add later on [Music] and at this stage i felt the diorama was nicely taking shape and it was time to add some brick dust pigments you can see in the background there i've added a little picture frame that's fallen off the wall that was printed out on a regular office printer and the frame was made from some very fine pieces of balsa wood the pigment was spread on top of most surfaces i'm not using anything to fix it here i'm relying on the rough texture to hold onto the pigment particles [Music] um and of course i also put some pigment on the wheels of the gun and on the uniforms of the crew i haven't shown you how i painted the crew because to be honest my figure painting is not that good there are many better tutorials out there but i am practicing and with the addition of a few ammo boxes and other bits and pieces the diorama was ready before i show you the final result let me take a moment to say thank you to my patreon supporters your help and support is really appreciated guys and if you do want to support the channel there are links to do so in the description below [Music] okay so there was my small pack 36 diorama i'm really pleased with the way it turned out overall particularly the interior of the building uh if there was one thing that i would improve it would definitely be that exterior wall and the stone surface which doesn't quite look right i did consider covering it in leaves or ivy or something similar but in the end i thought i'll just notch this one up to experience and i will make a better stone wall next time okay guys before we go here's a quick preview of some upcoming videos i've always got three or four projects going on at the same time and there's no real guarantee of which one will come first but all of these projects will eventually show up in a future video so guys that's all for today thank you very much for watching i hope you enjoyed the video and i hope to see you next time

Channel: Model Nerd

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Keywords: scale model, modelling, Pak 35/36, Tamiya, 1/35, model kit, German, WW2

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Length: 17min 58sec (1078 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 06 2020